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So to sum up for the women's 5k tomorrow: The top-10 goes to the 10k IF they have less than 180 FIS points in tomorrow's race? So if for example the athlete in 8th position gets 185 points tomorrow, only the top-7 will go to the main race?

Slightly annoying that there are two former Ukrainians (both biathletes) competing for Moldova here without FIS points and so in the need to qualify, taking up two spots... Anyhow, I just finished going through the women's start list in detail to see how Bruna's chances are for tomorrow where she needs to beat 23 athletes. Basically I got to these numbers: As good as impossible to beat without these athletes falling: 7 (including Skender for @dcro ) Anywhere from 'very hard but possible to beat' to 'there might be a decent chance to beat them': 5 Should be possible under normal circumstances: 11 Bruna should beat them when not having a fall or something: 9 Which makes for 20 athletes that she should normally be able to beat....3 more needed, this is gonna be a lot closer than I expected (in a good sense ).

It's not a boring day, full of excitement for tomorrow's cross-country qualifying race, I just passed an important Linux exam, the weather is good and we're gonna have a delicious dinner..... Any day is a good day for anthem fails though

Slightly logical (definitely for Kuzmina) but always a bit sad. Dahlmeier is probably gonna do the same (which is a lot less logical than Kuzmina ) if she wins some gold. Not expecting to see Kaisa around much longer neither and I would be surprised if MDH goes for another full Olympic cycle.

Slovenians.

Cool suits I'm missing a bit of orange though

Awesome, thanks! And apparently I missed something because that black guy is Luquinho and I had no idea he would make his youth world champs debut That fireworks, but I got it in Facebook Messenger Definitely going to check that site out when I'm home!

Cross-country skiing

Props to the two Indians there by the way, going far below the Olympic B-standard if I'm not mistaken ( @dcro?), so that's good news

Sooo....Shehan Muthugala of Sri Lanka lost over one hour in the 15k freestyle cross-country skiing..Sajeev da Silva has gone for CC now that he's not allowed in the biathlon, but that hasn't gone very well yet.

[hide] Round Robin February 4th - March 18th, 2017 6 Nations, One Group, 1st Nation wins the championship. Week 3 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 February 25th 2017, h. 14:25, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland 5 Wales February 25th 2017, h. 16:50, Aviva Stadium, Dublin Ireland 3 France February 26th 2017, h. 15:00, Twickenham Stadium, London England 15 Italy Week 4 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 10th 2017, h. 20:05, Principality Stadium, Cardiff Wales 7 Ireland March 11th 2017, h. 13:30, Stadio Olimpico, Roma Italy 20 France March 11th 2017, h. 16:00, Twickenham Stadium, London England 4 Scotland Week 5 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 March 18th 2017, h. 12:30, Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh Scotland 12 Italy March 18th 2017, h. 14:45, Stade de France, Paris France 6 Wales March 18th 2017, h. 17:00, Aviva Stadium, Dublin Ireland 3 England [/hide]

[hide] Event and Date Gold Medal Winner Silver Medal Winner Bronze Medal Winner Athletes CROSS-COUNTRY Women's Sprint Day 1, February 23rd, 2017 Stina Nilsson Maiken Caspersen Falla Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Marit Bjørgen Maiken Caspersen Falla Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Natalya Matveyeva Anamarija Lampič Hanna Falk Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Kikkan Randall Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's Sprint Day 1, February 23rd, 2017 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Federico Pellegrino Sergey Ustiugov Alex Harvey Federico Pellegrino Emil Iversen Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Finn Hågen Krogh Petter Northug Sindre Bjørnestad Skar Sergey Ustiugov Someone from Sweden Simeon Hamilton Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Individual Normal Hill / 10 km Day 2, February 24th, 2017 Johannes Rydzek Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Bernhard Gruber Someone from France Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek Someone from Italy Akito Watabe Jørgen Graabak Magnus Moan Any Other SKI JUMPING Women's Individual Normal HiIl Day 2, February 24th, 2017 Sara Takanashi Yuki Ito Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Jacqueline Seifriedsberger Katharina Althaus Carina Vogt Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi Maren Lundby Irina Avvakumova Ema Klinec Sarah Hendrickson Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 15 km Skiathlon Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Someone from Norway Someone from Norway Krista Pärmäkoski Krista Pärmäkoski Someone from Norway Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Elizabeth Stephen Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 30 km Skiathlon Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Martin Johnsrud Sundby Dario Cologna Any Other Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Finn Hågen Krogh Sjur Røthe Sergey Ustiugov Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Dario Cologna Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Individual Normal Hill Day 3, February 25th, 2017 Kamil Stoch Michael Hayböck Andreas Wellinger Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Andreas Wellinger Daniel-André Tande Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch Domen Prevc Peter Prevc Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's Team Sprint Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Norway Sweden Finland Finland Germany Norway Poland Russia Slovenia Sweden United States Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's Team Sprint Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Norway Russia Sweden Canada Finland France Germany Italy Kazakhstan Norway Russia Sweden United States Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Team Normall Hill / 4 x 5 km Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Germany Norway Austria Austria Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway United States Any Other SKI JUMPING Mixed Team Normal Hill Day 4, February 26th, 2017 Austria Slovenia Germany Austria Germany Japan Norway Poland Slovenia Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 10 km Classical Day 5, February 28th, 2017 Marit Bjørgen Krista Pärmäkoski Heidi Weng Kerttu Niskanen Krista Pärmäkoski Marit Bjørgen Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Justyna Kowalczyk Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Someone from USA Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Individual Large Hill / 10 km Day 6, March 1st, 2017 Johannes Rydzek Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Someone from Austria Eero Hirvonen Eric Frenzel Fabian Rießle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe Jørgen Graabak Magnus Moan Tim Hug Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 15 km Classical Day 6, March 1st, 2017 Iivo Niskanen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Didrik Tønseth Matti Heikkinen Iivo Niskanen Alexey Poltoranin Anders Gløersen Martin Johnsrud Sundby Didrik Tønseth Sergey Ustiugov Marcus Hellner Johan Olsson Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 4 x 5 km Relay Day 7, March 2nd, 2017 Norway Finland Sweden Finland Germany Norway Sweden United States Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Individual Large HiIl Day 7, March 2nd, 2017 Kamil Stoch Domen Prevc Any Other Michael Hayböck Stefan Kraft Andreas Wellinger Daniel-André Tande Maciej Kot Kamil Stoch Domen Prevc Peter Prevc Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 4 x 10 km Relay Day 8, March 3rd, 2017 Norway Finland Sweden Canada Finland France Germany Italy Norway Russia Sweden Switzerland Any Other NORDIC COMBINED Team Sprint Large Hill / 2 x 7,5 km Day 8, March 3rd, 2017 Germany Norway Austria Austria Czech Republic France Germany Italy Norway Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Women's 30 km Freestyle Day 9, March 4th, 2017 Heidi Weng Marit Bjørgen Charlotte Kalla Krista Pärmäkoski Marit Bjørgen Ingvild Flugstad Østberg Heidi Weng Charlotte Kalla Stina Nilsson Jessica Diggins Elizabeth Stephen Any Other SKI JUMPING Men's Team Large Hill Day 9, March 4th, 2017 Poland Germany Austria Austria Germany Japan Norway Poland Slovenia Any Other CROSS-COUNTRY Men's 50 km Freestyle Day 10, March 5th, 2017 Someone from Norway Someone from Norway Alex Harvey Alex Harvey Matti Heikkinen Maurice Manificat Someone from Norway Alexander Legkov Sergey Ustiugov Calle Halfvarsson Marcus Hellner Johan Olsson Dario Cologna Any Other [/hide]

Hope for an early start number to see her start and for a late number to see her finish basically That's the good thing about mass start events, they show every finisher (at least at the Universiade they did). This start lis is one of the most anticipated things for me this season by the way. I have absolutely no idea what to expect, and like I told her yesterday, right now I'd say she has anything from 5% to 80% chance to qualify for the main race because it's just completely impossible to know who will be in that qualifying race

Couldn't you have said that earlier? Then I would have bought some stickers online with the Totallympics logo and gave it to her when I was at the IBU Cups so she could put them all over Lahti I'll ask her though, and definitely the 'T' thing although I'm fairly sure that will be easier at the finish when the focus is gone (unless she's so near-dead like in Almaty where she was waving frantically to the big screen in the stadium that was showing her instead of to the camera ) By the way, they got lost in the training today and skied 5km in the wrong way....I hope it's all going better Wednesday

@hckosice Well done to Brezno, just saw a video of the opening ceremony fireworks and it looks really awesome

This is on the door of the changing room used by the Brazilian women, a list of nations who share that changing room....but apparently it's the exact same list as on the men's changing room, so I guess this doesn't mean Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Ecuador etc will have a woman competing I know Chile is represented by a woman (Claudia Salcedo), from Venezuela and Ecuador I'm only expecting guys and about Colombia....no idea.

Despite all this, my biggest problem/annoyance in recent weeks and months has been with people who are on the Democrat side in the US and after the elections went on saying that it's all so unfair, and Clinton got the most votes and should have won and bla bla....they should have complained about that before the election (but Clinton was ahead in the polls, so you didn't hear them then). Or even worse, the "he is not my president!"-yellers....Trump is an asshat, but he became president after a democratic election according to the rules and so is the rightful winner and the president of every American citizen.. Anyway, Wilders' decline seems a bit more serious than last time and it's already happened quite often that he got really big in polls but then somewhat disappointed in actual elections And there's still the whole thing of 'what if Wilders wins', because he'll have to form a coalition with other parties and no party wants to do so basically...I believe that caused him to not be in the government eventually last time (or before that, I'm not sure).

Well, there is no denying that there are problems and whenever there is a major terrorist attack, it's also not very hard to guess the background unfortunately. I'm definitely not on the side of Wilders though, who is (in my opinion) way too extreme, but I'm also not on the side of what are considered the left parties here, some of whom simply seem to say there is no problem at all. There are definitely problems with integration...obviously not for all, not even close, but the problems exist and should somehow be solved. Wilders' plans of banning everything related to Islam doesn't exactly seem like a good solution though (if anything, it would cause only more problems with people getting angry and subsequently getting violent). I honestly have no idea on which party I'm gonna vote yet, but I do know 3-4 parties that will most certainly not get my vote. One of them is Wilders' party, another one is a party which is basically full of Erdogan-lovers (not meant as an insulting way to say 'Turkish', but meant to mean people who actually support Erdogan's ideas) and yet another one wants to pretty much throw away all of Dutch culture. Well, ok, the very strongly Christian party won't get my vote neither because I want politics and religion to be separate and they don't My guess for now is that I'm gonna go somewhere down the middle.

Me? His opinion (literally): make the Quran and preferably the entire Islam illegal and close every mosque and Islamic school, that's not even close to my opinion That's way too 'right' for me, whereas denying that there is any problem at all is way too 'left' for me...I'm more in the middle about a lot of things.

I don't remember that, I guess I was merely a little interested in the exotic nations instead of having my actual best friend compete like Wednesday

Wilders is dropping down the rankings rather fast the past days

He keeps showing every day how much of an idiot the Americans put in charge Oh well, at least he's showing so clearly that he just has absolutely no clue what he's doing that next time maybe they'll choose an actual presidential candidate

Whaaaat?! You serious?? That's amazing news

Team Brazil for the world championships Women: Bruna Moura, Jaqueline Mourão, Mirlene Picin Men: Leandro Lutz, Victor Santos

Whatever you do.....do not try to make fun of your opponent by doing some sort of mating dance in his face